Between a year and a half or two years ago I wrote several analyses here stating Hillary would win the senate, what the dynams were, and how she would do it. At that time the majority of people here called me nuts, her negatives were too high, the Jews would never forgive her hugging and kissing Mrs. Arafat...and so on.
Hillary ran a shrewd campaign with the best help money and fanaticism could buy. She was also straight on course for the presidency until the WTC.
She isn't out of the picture yet.
Maybe not, but she is sure fading fast. Even if President Bush stumbles significantly between now and 2004, the country will not turn back to the Clintons - especially her, she is Bill without the Elvis! The country will more likely turn to an entirely new face, just as it did with Bill Clinton in 1992. Hillary is not only far in the shadows of President Bush, she is not even the most popular politician in New York. While Bush reminds everyone how much we don't miss Bill, Rudy Giuliani reminds New Yorkers how much they don't need Hillary!
I have always thought that Bill and Hillary were inseparable for a reason: they are really one organism - she has the brains and discipline, and he has the political and media skills. Without him, she is only brains and discipline with no personality. She has zero political skills, and her media skills are barely above zero. New York was the only place she could ever get elected to anything.